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The Best Inventions

Your quick cup of tea began life 120 years ago this week when the teabag was invented. But what are the other inventions you are glad to have – from Lady Gaga singing about the telephone to a trip on a jetplane, or is it your sliced Bread and a toaster?

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Tue 2 Apr 2024 18:00

Music Played

  • Talking Heads

    Road To Nowhere

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
  • Golden Earring

    Radar Love

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll - 1973.
    • Connoisseur.
    • 18.
  • Kursaal Flyers

    Little Does She Know

    • Ultimate One Hit Wondrs.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 10.
  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Big 70s Party.
    • EMI / Virgin.
    • 2.
  • Streetband

    Toast

    • (CD Single).
    • Logo.
  • Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers

    My Walking Stick

    • Louis Armstrong And The Mills Brothers.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 1.
  • Gary Numan

    Cars

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Toulouse, LIAS (Elias Näslin) & John Legend

    Slow Cooker

    • Bigger Love.
    • Columbia.
    • 9.
  • The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Summer In The City

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.
  • The Selecter

    On My Radio

    • Flashback To The 70s.
    • Music for Pleasure.
    • 20.
  • Girls Aloud

    Sound Of The Underground

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • The Scaffold

    Lily The Pink

    • The Hits Of 1968 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.
  • Chris Stapleton

    Tennessee Whiskey

    • Traveller.
    • Mercury Nashville.
    • 3.
  • T. Rex

    Life's a Gas

    • Best Of Marc Bolan And T. Rex.
    • Flashlight.
    • 5.
  • Lou Reed

    Satellite Of Love

    • Transformer.
    • BMG.
    • 7.
  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • The Tubes

    TV Is King

    • Remote Control.
    • A&M.
    • 2.
  • The Hollies

    The Air That I Breathe

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.
    • 14.
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Tesla Girls

    • The Best Of OMD.
    • Virgin.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Apr 2024 18:00